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1954 (2) TMI 12 - SC - Indian Lawswhether the Madras Electricity Supply Undertakings (Acquisition) Act, 1949 was a law with respect to electricity under entry 31 of the concurrent list or with respect to corporations under entry 33 in list I? Held that:- If power’ inhered in the Federal Legislature to make a law for the acquisition of any property for any purpose connected with a matter with respect to which it had’ power to make laws then section 127 would not have’ been necessary at all. The absence of any entry empowering any Legislature to make laws with respect to compulsory acquisition of a commercial or industrial undertaking and the provisions of section 127 to, which reference has just been made make it abundantly clear that the contentions urged by the learned’ Advocate-General cannot possibly be sustained. In our opinion, therefore, it must be held that the Madras Legislature had no legislative competency to enact the impugned law. Appeal allowed.
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